Associate Product Manager
About this role
Role Summary:
The Associate Product Manager is a passionate learner and self-starter aspiring to be a Product Manager. They are creative problem-solvers who show foundational skills with the ability to assess customer problems, business needs, opportunities and offer solutions to support the PM team. They need the energy to thrive in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment and understand that this role is a learning role, just as it's a ‘doing’ role. A person in this job is expected to grow quickly, build skills to further their impact and drive end-to-end product management with the support and mentorship of more senior Product Managers and Leaders.
Note: We are only looking for candidates with a Law Degree who are passionate to start their career in Product Management.
About the Role
As an Associate Product Manager, you will:
- Develop strong product intuition by interpreting and assessing customer problems, business needs and opportunities and offering potential solutions with a moderate level of guidance and direction.
- Build world class capabilities and products by serving as the customer voice for the engineering teams, prioritizing the product backlog based on customer and business value, and using metrics to monitor and measure progress.
- Understand the customer by directing customer research to validate, prioritize, and hone new product concepts. Conduct or participate in market and competitive analysis to drive the creation and positioning of propositions, products, or services. Support commercial-facing teams in client engagement and retention activities.
- Demonstrate leadership by taking ownership for a feature/product, its performance and reliability, and delighting our clients with a positive experience. You will show that you can learn from your experiences, recover from setbacks, and effectively evangelize the product vision to colleagues.
In order to be successful in achieving these goals, you will be:
- Curious & Innovative, starting with an obsession for our customers’ problems and needs and then working closely with customers, partners, and other Thomson Reuters colleagues to solve them in unique ways
- Agile with a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment to deliver solutions against strict timelines; unafraid of failure
- An effective communicator who projects confidence and communicates concisely and clearly to management, peers, customers and partners
About you
You’re a fit for the role, if you have:
Foundational Skills
Successful Associate Product Manager (APM) candidates will exhibit and show the aspiration to further develop the following skills:
- Problem Solving
- Leadership
- Technical
- Design Thinking
- Cross functional collaboration
- Communication
- Effective Execution
Qualifications
- Law Degree